Your parents may not understand how to use that technology, but they understand its implications as they saw the world change as it became widely used. Children and teenagers growing up around this stuff though that just take it for granted? They don't have a fucking clue.
You know the dodgiest thing about Mcaffee? The moment your PC dies, it uninstalls itself and does a runner, so you'll never even know if it was the app that did the killing!
Perhaps he meant knowing not to use the inverse of the return of a string comparison function, because that would always evaluate every character in the string before returning
That's the problem though - Adobe couldn't exactly dump all those "developers" still using AS2, so they kept backwards compatibility. I'd wager a lot of AS3 "developers" are of the same calibre as AS2 "developers" - that is, artists who have diversified a little into scripting but don't really have a good understanding of programming or optimisation. The end result is as you said, loads of flash applications that murder your machine when they run. Also it took Adobe till Flash CS5.5 to make an IDE even remotely conducive to an efficient workflow.
I can't comment about Eve, but I played all of the X games all the way up to Terran Conflict and I have to say, Egosoft have one HUGE weakness: Writing a halfway decent story. I dare any of you to look up the X3 Reunion original intro cutscene on youtube. Who in their right mind would have an alien race named the Kh'aak and then have an announcer with a pseudo American accent pronounce it? The Kh'aak invasion is unstoppable! Yeah.
The trouble with space simulations is that there just aren't many of them, the genre never really took off the way FPS games or RTS games did. This means that while there are some good games out there, they all have their problems.
Braben doesn't have anything to worry about in terms of competition imo, he can blow them away.
Looking at the diet of the average American school-kid, I think it's safe to say that no, the average person does not in fact know how dangerous a massive helping of sugar from a litre sized soda drink can be when consumed regularly over a sustained period of time. Most people simply eat what's put in front of them as long as it tastes good and others are eating it / it has an interesting TV ad, without any real consideration for what, exactly, they are putting in their chubby little mouths. Legislating the maximum size of a soda drink won't cause over indulgers to load up elsewhere so long as the difference in size isn't insulting; they'll simply drink the smaller soda end of story, because once again, they just wanted the big drink without caring about its exact size. On the other hand, setting a maximum soda drink size now will also prevent concession stands from coming up with even crazier drink sizes further down the road.
If enough people jumped out of planes without chutes and were landing on and damaging the property of others, I'd call for a ban on skydiving without a chute.
Your belief that the Universe needed something to come into existence in the first place is fascinating!
If this were true, then something would have had to have created The Creator as well. I posit that the same malfunctioning part of your brain that believes in God has also attempted (poorly) to impose your human interpretation of your surroundings upon the actual functioning of the Universe, thus dumbing down its laws to your level of intellect. In this simplistic view of the Universe (where something all powerful created it, yet is not also subject to having been created by something even more powerful) the existence of God is of course possible, but only because you said so!
In reality, life and death are purely human concepts. Nothing is actually completely destroyed, merely converted to another state. The Universe had no beginning and it will have no end. Using this more general concept of the functioning of the Universe, where we do not impose our beliefs upon it, it is clear that God, in the form of The Creator, does not exist.
I suppose all those Cola and fast food ads have glorified gobbling down all those empty carbs eh? I actually don't live in your country, I live in the one next door. We're like America lite - All the good with none of the bullshit. Take it from me, your government needs to do something about your weight because you never will. On the other hand you could die free. Fat and nasty, but free.
Fair enough, my opinion falls slightly along the more draconian solution in that regard. A litre of coke though, that is a fairly insane amount to drink in one sitting. They ought to include health warnings!
An adult citizen who is eating themselves to death is about as demeaned as you can get. In this case it takes a rationale mind (the parent) to make the child stop (the obese person) before they kill themselves. I suppose that in this case the truth is oppressive; sometimes we must look after those who do not wish to be looked after.
Bullshit, those fatties need to lose the fucking cola once and for all. This isn't about oppression, it's about common sense, and if the parents need to take the sweeties away from the child to stop it from eating itself to death, then so be it.
I imagine it's another new marketing buzzword that the editor has caught onto, something along the lines of the incredibly irritating abuse of the word "reveal".
It is a terrible programming language. This is in my opinion mostly due to the fact that JS commands are so far removed from what your system actually does. JS is a popular language because it can be used by pretty much anybody to produce quick results, but falls flat precisely for this same reason. It lacks the verbosity of more rigorous languages and this frequently results in some truly god awful code being produced. Learning JS as a first programming language is a risky proposition, as you may not gain a good understanding of what's happening behind the scenes. If you were then to learn a more "old school" language like C (for the sake of argument), you might find yourself struggling to understand its syntax, and struggling even more to create reliable, *fast* code.
They can be easy to learn, but hard to master. The kind of social skills needed to get by in life (that geeks are accused of lacking) don't take long to get the hang of, and as a result I shall encourage my descendants to explore their creative side first, and worry about what people think of them second.
It's a matter of relativity. It's not as difficult to best John Smith the Media Studies Major who blew his student loan on booze. Carmack and CliffyB are extreme examples, but it is not unreasonable to aspire to something like that when you are naturally motivated toward self improvement instead of social acceptance.
You left out the "really good looking" part. Yes, needy humans are easy to manipulate, have fun with that. The ones who have made something of themselves will not fall for cheap pick up lines or dates to the pub.
The thing about being social skills is that they're extraordinarily easy to learn. Go work in a coffee shop for a year and boom, you have all the skills you'll ever need. On the other hand, all that hackneyed, uninspiring haiku stuff that goes hand in hand with programming, tinkering, writing music and so on is actually much harder to learn. And will make you a bunch of money.
So while you're off fucking chicks in high school / college and enjoying the 5 or so years of your life where you mean a damn, the geeks are busy toiling away in their caves creating something cool. At about the post University level they emerge, get gym memberships, get jobs that require social contact and end up with the *really* good looking girls who were also socially awkward in school that would never have banged you in a million years.
So while you're rotting at the local pub, do spare a thought for those sex starved voyeuristic creeps, and their nice cars, big houses and sexy, intelligent wives.
Anon doesn't deserve a downvote, the mod has been "nearly done" for a while now, it's pretty much the Duke Nukem Forever of mods. I do hope that the wait was worth it, and I shall certainly get the mod and see for myself, but cynicism in this case is quite forgiveable.
I was pretty happy just now, until I read this. Now I feel like arse and being a man, it's going to take me all bloody day to feel better again. Thanks a lot.
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Your parents may not understand how to use that technology, but they understand its implications as they saw the world change as it became widely used. Children and teenagers growing up around this stuff though that just take it for granted? They don't have a fucking clue.
You know the dodgiest thing about Mcaffee? The moment your PC dies, it uninstalls itself and does a runner, so you'll never even know if it was the app that did the killing!
Is it Albania?
Yes, yes it would. In my defence I didn't get enough sleep today...
Perhaps he meant knowing not to use the inverse of the return of a string comparison function, because that would always evaluate every character in the string before returning
That's the problem though - Adobe couldn't exactly dump all those "developers" still using AS2, so they kept backwards compatibility. I'd wager a lot of AS3 "developers" are of the same calibre as AS2 "developers" - that is, artists who have diversified a little into scripting but don't really have a good understanding of programming or optimisation. The end result is as you said, loads of flash applications that murder your machine when they run. Also it took Adobe till Flash CS5.5 to make an IDE even remotely conducive to an efficient workflow.
I can't comment about Eve, but I played all of the X games all the way up to Terran Conflict and I have to say, Egosoft have one HUGE weakness: Writing a halfway decent story. I dare any of you to look up the X3 Reunion original intro cutscene on youtube. Who in their right mind would have an alien race named the Kh'aak and then have an announcer with a pseudo American accent pronounce it? The Kh'aak invasion is unstoppable! Yeah.
The trouble with space simulations is that there just aren't many of them, the genre never really took off the way FPS games or RTS games did. This means that while there are some good games out there, they all have their problems.
Braben doesn't have anything to worry about in terms of competition imo, he can blow them away.
Consider yourself lucky that you're even still alive, I heard she convinced some poor geek from Toronto to take out seven of those ex's!
Looking at the diet of the average American school-kid, I think it's safe to say that no, the average person does not in fact know how dangerous a massive helping of sugar from a litre sized soda drink can be when consumed regularly over a sustained period of time. Most people simply eat what's put in front of them as long as it tastes good and others are eating it / it has an interesting TV ad, without any real consideration for what, exactly, they are putting in their chubby little mouths. Legislating the maximum size of a soda drink won't cause over indulgers to load up elsewhere so long as the difference in size isn't insulting; they'll simply drink the smaller soda end of story, because once again, they just wanted the big drink without caring about its exact size. On the other hand, setting a maximum soda drink size now will also prevent concession stands from coming up with even crazier drink sizes further down the road.
If enough people jumped out of planes without chutes and were landing on and damaging the property of others, I'd call for a ban on skydiving without a chute.
Your belief that the Universe needed something to come into existence in the first place is fascinating!
If this were true, then something would have had to have created The Creator as well. I posit that the same malfunctioning part of your brain that believes in God has also attempted (poorly) to impose your human interpretation of your surroundings upon the actual functioning of the Universe, thus dumbing down its laws to your level of intellect. In this simplistic view of the Universe (where something all powerful created it, yet is not also subject to having been created by something even more powerful) the existence of God is of course possible, but only because you said so!
In reality, life and death are purely human concepts. Nothing is actually completely destroyed, merely converted to another state. The Universe had no beginning and it will have no end. Using this more general concept of the functioning of the Universe, where we do not impose our beliefs upon it, it is clear that God, in the form of The Creator, does not exist.
I suppose all those Cola and fast food ads have glorified gobbling down all those empty carbs eh? I actually don't live in your country, I live in the one next door. We're like America lite - All the good with none of the bullshit. Take it from me, your government needs to do something about your weight because you never will. On the other hand you could die free. Fat and nasty, but free.
Fair enough, my opinion falls slightly along the more draconian solution in that regard. A litre of coke though, that is a fairly insane amount to drink in one sitting. They ought to include health warnings!
An adult citizen who is eating themselves to death is about as demeaned as you can get. In this case it takes a rationale mind (the parent) to make the child stop (the obese person) before they kill themselves. I suppose that in this case the truth is oppressive; sometimes we must look after those who do not wish to be looked after.
Would it be oppressive if I put guard rails up on a bridge to stop people chucking themselves off it?
Bullshit, those fatties need to lose the fucking cola once and for all. This isn't about oppression, it's about common sense, and if the parents need to take the sweeties away from the child to stop it from eating itself to death, then so be it.
I imagine it's another new marketing buzzword that the editor has caught onto, something along the lines of the incredibly irritating abuse of the word "reveal".
It is a terrible programming language. This is in my opinion mostly due to the fact that JS commands are so far removed from what your system actually does. JS is a popular language because it can be used by pretty much anybody to produce quick results, but falls flat precisely for this same reason. It lacks the verbosity of more rigorous languages and this frequently results in some truly god awful code being produced. Learning JS as a first programming language is a risky proposition, as you may not gain a good understanding of what's happening behind the scenes. If you were then to learn a more "old school" language like C (for the sake of argument), you might find yourself struggling to understand its syntax, and struggling even more to create reliable, *fast* code.
Even worse, with the baby code base, recursion is deeply frowned upon!
They can be easy to learn, but hard to master. The kind of social skills needed to get by in life (that geeks are accused of lacking) don't take long to get the hang of, and as a result I shall encourage my descendants to explore their creative side first, and worry about what people think of them second.
It's a matter of relativity. It's not as difficult to best John Smith the Media Studies Major who blew his student loan on booze. Carmack and CliffyB are extreme examples, but it is not unreasonable to aspire to something like that when you are naturally motivated toward self improvement instead of social acceptance.
You left out the "really good looking" part. Yes, needy humans are easy to manipulate, have fun with that. The ones who have made something of themselves will not fall for cheap pick up lines or dates to the pub.
The thing about being social skills is that they're extraordinarily easy to learn. Go work in a coffee shop for a year and boom, you have all the skills you'll ever need. On the other hand, all that hackneyed, uninspiring haiku stuff that goes hand in hand with programming, tinkering, writing music and so on is actually much harder to learn. And will make you a bunch of money.
So while you're off fucking chicks in high school / college and enjoying the 5 or so years of your life where you mean a damn, the geeks are busy toiling away in their caves creating something cool. At about the post University level they emerge, get gym memberships, get jobs that require social contact and end up with the *really* good looking girls who were also socially awkward in school that would never have banged you in a million years.
So while you're rotting at the local pub, do spare a thought for those sex starved voyeuristic creeps, and their nice cars, big houses and sexy, intelligent wives.
Anon doesn't deserve a downvote, the mod has been "nearly done" for a while now, it's pretty much the Duke Nukem Forever of mods. I do hope that the wait was worth it, and I shall certainly get the mod and see for myself, but cynicism in this case is quite forgiveable.
I was pretty happy just now, until I read this. Now I feel like arse and being a man, it's going to take me all bloody day to feel better again. Thanks a lot.